GUERILLAS AGAIN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 260, 3 November 1941, Page 7

GUERILLAS AGAIN

UKRAINE FIGHTING War's Heaviest Artillery Duel On Crimea Entrance United Press Association.—Copyright. Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 2. The latest Moscow communique says guerilla forces burned down German warehouses at Kiev. Guerillas have also been active at Nikolaev, east of Odessa, and also at Krivoirog, in the central Ukraine, where they caused several explosions at the reopening of the ore mine. It is reported from Helsinki that the Finns have captured Kondopoga, on the north-west reaches of Lake Onega The Moscow radio said Russian motor torpedo boats in the Baltic sank three ships and damaged a fourth. Stockholm newspaper correspondents in Berlin say the German break through on the Perekop Isthmus was achieved after the heaviest artillery duel of the war. Two hundred German guns 40 yards apart battered the Russian defences. The Russian artillery was equally formidable. German reports of the engagement for the first time admit heavy German losses. One German correspondent says: "Our ranks melted away."

The Times' Stockholm correspondent says the Russians at Leningrad have not so far achieved a major success really threatening to the German hold, but they have certainly kept the Germans busy and prevented reinforcements for the offensive against Moscow.

The Germans and Russians are still evenly matched between Leningrad and Kalinin. German reports state that the Russians at Leningrad continue their determined attempt to break the. besiegers' ring, and that they have several times crossed the Neva by night or under artificial fog in motor barges, but have been thrown back with murderous fire from artillery and machine-guns. German troops after bitter hand-to-han« fighting broke through a strongly fortified enemy defence zone west of Wolchow, in the direction of Leningrad.

Moscow radio says the Russians attacking Kalinin recaptured one of the north-eastern suburbs. Fighting on the Naro River is fierce and me Russians have pushed back German groups from the eastern bank. GRAIN FOR RUSSIA PURCHASE IN CANADA Rec. 1 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 2. The New York Sun says that the German penetration of the Ukraine has raised the question as to whether Russia will be self-sufficient in whedt this winter, adding that it is reported in the grain trade that Russia is already buying Canadian wheat for clearance from New York, though so far the quantities are small and the scarcity of cargo ships is an important factor. T.U.C. DELEGATES BACK Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 2. Sir Walter Citrine, and the T.U.C. delegates have returned from Russia. Sir Walter said: "Our visit was worth while and will strengthen the bonds between British and Russian t workers in the successful prosecution of the war."

SINEWS OP WAR

U.S. SUPPLIES TO SOVIET

NEW YORK, Nov. 2

The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune says the United States Government has taken a significant step to speed aid to Russia by preparing a regular shipping service between American ports and the Persian Gulf, which is the safest route for supplies to Russia.

The Maritime Commission has completed plans, and the first ships plying between American ports and Bandar Shahpur, the terminus of the Iranian railway on the Persian Gulf, will sail soon. Tanks, aeroplanes and guns are to be transported in ever-increasing quantities by this route.

Travellers reaching Cairo from Kuibyshev (Russia) said British and American supplies must be speeded up tenfold if Russia is to be enabled to stem the German droves. They also said the battle for Moscow was the fiercest of the campaign, and the Germans were suffering terrific losses in men and materials.

JEWISH ARMY

FORMATION DESIRED

Rec. 2 p.m

NEW YORK, Nov. 2

The Senate majority leader, Senator Barkley, speaking at a meeting on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, called for a Jewish army to fight with the British in the Middle East. He said that already 1000 Jews were fighting Hitler, but thousands of others were anxious to fight as a Jewish army under their own flag as are the Free French, Czechs, Poles and others.